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The list includes Shanks and Vermes (who recounted his interesting adventures more than once, including the mistaken claim that his was the first Scrolls PhD, though Samuel Iwry, 1951, Johns Hopkins U. with Albright as advisor, "The Damascus Document and the Dead Sea Scrolls" was earlier). That brings to mind some other Dead Sea Scrolls related items. Though John C. Trever may be remembered more for photography than scholarship, his The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Personal Account (revised ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977) reports much of interest. So does the sometimes overlooked William Brownlee, "My Eight Years of Scroll Research," Duke Divinity School Bulletin 21.3 (1956) 68-81http://divinityarchive.com/bitstream/handle/11258/750/dukedivinitybulletin-21-3.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yYigael Yadin presented excerpts from the diary of his father E. L. Sukenik in the Sukenik Eretz Israel vol. 8 (1967) (and used it also in his Message of the Scrolls), with a different perspective than Brownlee/Trever--and some different chronology. Even Weston Field's Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History: Volume One: 1947-1960 (Leiden: Brill, 2009), though it includes many interviews and documents, leaves some matters unsettled. E.g., what two Hebrew University librarians, early on, dismissed some Cave One scrolls as unimportant? (Fields wrote that there may have been two distinct and separate caves conflated into Cave One, btw.) The great Gershom Scholem, who may not fit the "Ancient" category (he was rather disinterested in Assyriology and, curiously, also Qumran mss), and who may not have been one of those librarians, in any case, wrote a fine memoir, From Berlin to Jerusalem (New York: Schocken,1980, tr. from German).

I like this project/blog. I added it to my blog, see here also for a comment about adding Taha Hussein's autobiography to the working bibliography: http://classicsinarabic.blogspot.de/2015/12/an-interesting-new-blog-history-of.html

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The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of Autobiography Blog

This blog is a component of a research project initiated by Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, who has a long standing interest in the history of the study of the Ancient Near East and Egypt, and of old world Antiquity more generally. This blog will present the working bibliography of the project, and provide a platform for comment and discussion of autobiographical writing by students and scholars of the ancient world.

I hope also to develop a venue for the publication of new autobiographical essays in the form of an online open access periodical.